From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 05:59:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA02463 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 05:59:53 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA02457 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 05:59:50 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id AAA05773; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 00:54:28 +1100 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 00:54:28 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199511051354.AAA05773@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, grog@lemis.de Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> >I'll go along with that. "Not found" also scares off people who don't >> >realize that it's a normal state of affairs. >> >> It's only normal (and not good) for GENERIC and other bloated kernels. >Would you like to hazard a guess about what percentage of people >really, *really* customize their kernels? Even if you do, you might Low. 20%? >need to keep things in that you don't have (I haven't found a clean >way to remove CD-ROM support, for example). You're right, though, >that doesn't make it good. I would at least disable the drivers for hardware that doesn't exist. This doesn't reduce the space bloat but it makes driver probes more reliable and turns "Not found" warnings into errors. Bruce